caber
英 ['keɪbə]
美['kebɚ]
- n. （苏格兰等地的人测试臂力的）投棒；（用于气力比赛的）松木棒
英英释义
- 1. a heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of northern Scotland)
英文词源
- caber (n.)
- pole used in housebuilding, especially as an object tossed in the Highland games, 1510s, from Gaelic cabar "pole, spar," cognate with Irish cabar "lath," Welsh ceibr "beam, rafter."
词态变化
复数: cabers;